Paolilli, Paul
Summary: A father, his two daughters, and the family dog look with wonder at all the lights (both natural and man-made) that are on at night as they go for a drive, spend time by a campfire, and return home to their beds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PAOSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: A single mother and lawyer, Iris has a demanding boss, a young son with behavior issues, and a judgmental, aloof mother. Just a few years ago, Iris was confident and in control. But every day since Aaron’s birth, she’s condemned herself for being a failure—a bad parent who cannot cope with a difficult child. Though she loves her son fiercely, she despairs over his intense outbursts, which are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUSummary: Greek fisherman Demetrios guides a lost princess home to Atlantis, but is imprisoned there and must fight for his life, before rescuing the princess again as they flee the doomed realm.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY ATLGonzalez, Raul
Summary: Little Lobo, a Mexican American, and Bernabe, his dog, deliver supplies to vendors at the Mercado, a busy border town market.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GONAnderson, Poul
Summary: The author creates a fantastic history of humankind in which a few naturally immortal beings find themselves, over millions of years, alienated from an evolving human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDPauli, Lorenz.
Summary: When Fox goes to the library looking for mice, Mouse offers fox a book so that he will get new ideas -- like wanting to eat chickens. But when the chicken-eating, fox-hunting farmer walks into the library, Fox and Chicken think fast and come up with a surprising solution that just might save them both.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North-South 2013
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Summary: "Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family, and her society, hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She's hoping for a new beginning....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: An art collector guides an unseen interviewer around six paintings by Frédéric Tonnerre, a fictitious 19th century painter, in an attempt to solve the mystery of a missing seventh painting, the disappearance of which has provoked a major scandal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006
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Summary: Discovering an ancient artifact from a technologically superior culture, interstellar archaeologist Lissa and her alien academic partner, Karl, encounter dangerous adversaries who also seek the artifact for mercenary purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDPauls, Alan.
Summary: The hero of this novel is obsessed with money. His father makes money in poker games and casinos. His mother marries again and squanders her small inherited fortune. A novel of hardcore economics where the sex was replaced with money, and the economy of an entire country goes insane without hope of recovery, a centrifuge created by inflation and financial irrationality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUGaus, Paul L.
Summary: " P. L. Gaus's widely praised Amish-Country Mysteries continue to "probe the tension between the self-reliance of the Amish world and the urgencies of the English world" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In Whiskers of the Lion, Sheriff Bruce Robertsonis charged with finding a young Amish woman on the run from a murderous drug ring so she can testify in federal court. Wrestling with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUPauls, Chris
Summary: After summer, Charlie Lawson expects to go back to the boredom of middle school, but he stumbles on an abandoned warehouse, where he befriends a twenty-foot-tall teenage giant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Pauls 2016Anderson, Poul
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDAnderson, Poul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timescape Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANDPaolini, Christopher.
Summary: This deluxe edition of the runaway international bestseller includes: A sneak peek at Book III An exclusive, full-color foldout poster of Glaedr by award-winning artist John Jude Palencar A revealing excerpt of the history of Alagaësia Never-before-seen art by the author, including an image of Brom's elf ring A complete and comprehensive list of people, places, things, and dwarf clans Darkness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2006
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Paolini, Christopher.
Summary: The young Dragon Rider Eragon must finally confront the evil king Galbatorix to free Alagaesia from his rule once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PAOBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELPaolini, Christopher
Summary: Three new stories of Eragon set a year after he left Alaga℗♭℗łsia to find a home to train the newest generation of Dragon riders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PAOPaull, Laline.
Summary: Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Gaus, Paul L.
Summary: An Amish man exiled from his community in Ohio for fast living, returns to kidnap his son from his grandparents. Sleuth and professor Michael Branden is hired to find the boy, only to learn that the father has been murdered and the boy is missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 1999
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Summary: After a vicious murder in the heart of Amish Country, Professor Michael Branden, Sheriff Bruce Robertson, and Pastor Cal Troyer set out to catch a killer in the peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2010
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Summary: A fatal accident involving a semi and an Amish buggy starts Professor Michael to search for a connection to a string of other cirmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ohio University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAUGaus, Paul L.
Summary: "Sara Yoder is learning that danger can lurk in freedom's shadow. John Schlabaugh and Abe Yoder - Sara's friends and fellow travelers on the Amish rite of passage, Rumschpringe - are missing. Worried, but distrustful of most English, Sara calls Pastor Cal Troyer for help. Then Sara also disappears. Troyer, along with his old friends Professor Michael Branden and Sheriff Bruce Robertson, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012